Will Tar Sands Soon Be on Way to Europe?

February 5, 2014By Andy RowellBlog Post, Featured

As political pressure mounts in the US to lift the country’s decades-old crude oil export ban, Reuters reported yesterday that the US government has recently authorized limited re-exports of foreign crude to Europe for the first time in years. According to data the news agency obtained via Freedom of Information requests, the Department of Commerce … Read More

Canadian Scientist “Betrayed” Over Tar Sands

May 13, 2013By Andy RowellBlog Post, Featured

Mark Jaccard, one of Canada’s leading energy economists, from British Colombia’s Simon Fraser University, has said that the Canadian government’s campaign of aggression and name-calling over the tar sands is not winning it any respect. “I feel betrayed as a Canadian,” he says.